Certificate of Achievement

María Alejandra Borges Vega

has completed the following course:

Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean: Research, Policy and Management for Social Transformations

UNESCO and UNESCO MOST Programme

This online course made it possible to identify the challenges and opportunities for strengthening the links among knowledge and policy to lessen inequalities and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean. From the UNESCO MOST Programme and with the support of relevant international institutions and experts, the course identified strategies and tools at the service of policies struggling against inequalities in fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals.

4 weeks, 3 hours per week

Andrés Morales

Regional Especialist Social and Human Sciences

UNESCO MOST Programme

Luis Carrizo

Academic Coordinator

UNESCO MOST Programme

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Explore the link between research and public policies against inequalities and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Identify policy tools and strategies against inequalities and violence in the region.
  • Explore the relationship between inequalities, violence and democracy in the region.
  • Promote exchange networks to address inequalities, violence and democracy in the region, as a contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.

Syllabus

  • Knowledge, policy and management
    • What do we do with what we know and with what we don’t know? • Do we know in depth the inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean? • What knowledge are we producing and where is it? • What knowledge are the political decision-makers requiring and what do they use it for?
  • The dimensions of inequalities
    • Have the questions changed in the 21st century? • What is inequality? • Why are we the most unequal region in the world, and the most violent? • Is fighting poverty enough to reduce inequality? • Sustainable development and inequality, is it possible?
  • Knowledge-management for policies
    • Sources, means and strategies to face inequalities
  • Transformative paths against inequalities
    • Towards new knowledge and public action architectures

Issued on 24th July 2019

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Free online course:

Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean: Research, Policy and Management for Social Transformations

UNESCO